Newspaper Word Play - Angela's Poems [PDF]

Newspaper headlines demonstrating unintended word play.

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Newspaper Word Play - Angela's Poems ANGELA'S POEMS

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Poetry for beginners, teachers and children Copyright Angela Yardy 2010 Poetry Index

Newspaper Word Play Newspaper headlines can often be ambiguous (understood in two different ways) because they are written with the minimum of words...

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Word Play It really highlights how important it is to think about what you're writing doesn't it? More importantly, I hope that it gives you an idea of how you could DELIBERATELY include some word play in your writing and poems when you want to have a humorous effect. I find that specifically thinking of ideas for word play is difficult, but they tend to come to me by accident, or when I notice mistakes like these, and then I expand on the idea. Use this link to go back and see which of my poems specifically include word play. I'd love to hear what you think. Please leave a message in my

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